Five factors that signal headwinds for long-term investors

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The writer is a financial journalist and author of ‘More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy’

It is all too easy for investors to get caught up in the short-term news and focus on the latest profit warning, or utterance from the chair of the US Federal Reserve. But those who take the long view…